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Proverbia 119:67

Priusquam humiliarer ego erravi; nunc autem eloquium tuum custodiam.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Chastisement;   Instruction;   Testimony;   Thompson Chain Reference - Afflictions;   Blessings-Afflictions;   Trials;   The Topic Concordance - God;   Goodness;   Teaching;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions Made Beneficial;   Privileges of Saints;   Reproof;   Scriptures, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Law;   Letters;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Commentary;   Love to God;   Union to Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Judgments of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canon of the Old Testament;   Manasseh (2);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Teth;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ain;   Aleph;   Beth;   Joy;   Pharisees;   Prayer;   Psalms;   Regeneration;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Reproof;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Testimony;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Lamentations of jeremiah;   Psalms the book of;   Scripture;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Affliction;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for November 22;  

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
span data-lang="lat" data-trans="jvl" data-ref="psa.119.1" class="versetxt"> Canticum graduum. [Ad Dominum cum tribularer clamavi,
et exaudivit me.
Domine, libera animam meam a labiis iniquis
et a lingua dolosa.
Quid detur tibi, aut quid apponatur tibi
ad linguam dolosam?
Sagitt� potentis acut�,
cum carbonibus desolatoriis.
Heu mihi, quia incolatus meus prolongatus est!
habitavi cum habitantibus Cedar;
multum incola fuit anima mea.
Cum his qui oderunt pacem eram pacificus;
cum loquebar illis, impugnabant me gratis.]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Before: Psalms 119:176, Psalms 73:5-28, Deuteronomy 32:15, 2 Samuel 10:19, 2 Samuel 11:2-27, 2 Chronicles 33:9-13, Proverbs 1:32, Jeremiah 22:21

but now: Psalms 119:71, Psalms 119:75, Jeremiah 31:18, Jeremiah 31:19, Hosea 2:6, Hosea 2:7, Hosea 5:15, Hosea 6:1, Hebrews 12:10, Hebrews 12:11, Revelation 3:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:43 - and they 2 Chronicles 33:19 - before he Job 33:19 - chastened Job 36:9 - he Psalms 94:12 - Blessed Ecclesiastes 7:3 - is better Isaiah 27:9 - this therefore Jeremiah 24:5 - them that are carried away captive Ezekiel 14:11 - the house Matthew 20:34 - and they 2 Corinthians 4:17 - worketh James 1:12 - the man James 4:9 - afflicted

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Before I was afflicted, I went astray,.... From God; from his word, his ways and worship; like a lost sheep from the shepherd, the fold, the flock, and the footsteps of it; see Psalms 119:176; Not that he wilfully, wickedly, maliciously, and through contempt, departed from his God; this he denies, Psalms 18:21; but through the weakness of the flesh, the prevalence of corruption, and force of temptation, and very much through a careless, heedless, and negligent frame of spirit, he got out of the right way, and wandered from it before he was well aware. The word is used of erring through ignorance, Leviticus 5:18; this was in a time of prosperity, when, though he might not, like Jeshurun, wax fat and kick, and forsake and lightly esteem the Rock of his salvation; or fall into temptations and harmful lusts, and err from the faith, and be pierced with many sorrows, as too much love of the world brings men into; yet he might become inattentive to the duties of religion, and be negligent of them, which is a common case;

but now have I kept thy word: having been afflicted with outward and inward afflictions, afflictions of body and mind; afflictions in person, in family and estate; afflictions in soul, through indwelling sin, the temptations of Satan, and the hidings of God's face: all this brought him back again to God, to his word, ways, and worship; he betook himself to reading and hearing the word, if he might find any thing to relieve and comfort him under his trials; he observed the doctrines of grace in it, and kept the precepts of it, and walked in all the commandments and ordinances of it, being restored by afflictions.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Before I was afflicted - The Septuagint and the Latin Vulgate, “Before I was humbled.” The Hebrew word has the general sense of being afflicted, and may refer to any kind of trial.

I went astray - The Hebrew word means to wander; to err; to do wrong; to transgress. Numbers 15:28; Job 12:16. It here means that he forgot his duty; that he fell into sin; that he departed from what was right; that he embraced erroneous views; that he lived in the neglect of his soul, the neglect of duty, and the neglect of God. Prosperity had not led him to fulfill duty; to seek salvation; to trust in God. This was, in his case, as it is in thousands of others, the experience of his life. Hence, affliction often becomes so necessary to check us when we are going astray, and so useful in recalling us to the ways of duty and of truth.

But now have I kept thy word - Since I was afflicted. The effect has been to recall me from my wanderings, and to turn me to paths of duty and holiness. This is an effect often - very often - experienced; this is language which can be used by many a child of God. Of those who are the children of God it may be said that they are “always” benefited “sooner” or “later” by afflictions. It may not be at the time of the affliction (compare Hebrews 12:11), but the “ultimate” effect is in all cases to benefit them. Some error is corrected; some evil habit changed; some mode of life not consistent with religion is forsaken; pride is humbled; the heart is quickened in duty; habits of prayer are resumed or formed; the affections are fixed on a better world; the soul is made more gentle, calm, humble, spiritual, pure. Afflictions are among the most precious means of grace. They are entirely under the direction of God. They may be endlessly varied, and adapted to the case of every individual.

God knows every heart, and the best way to reach any heart. By sickness; by disappointment; by loss of property; by bereavement; by blighted hopes; by the ingratitude of others; by the unkindness of professed friends, and the malice of enemies; by domestic troubles; by the misconduct of children - perhaps the most severe of all human ills, and the hardest to bear; in ten thousand ways God can reach the heart, and break and crush it, and make it ready for the entrance of truth - as the farmer breaks and pulverizes the soil by the plow and the harrow, so that it shall be prepared to receive the seed. Compare the notes at Isaiah 28:24-29. Among those things for which good men have most occasion for thankfulness are afflictions; and when we lie down on the bed of death, and look over life and the divine dealings with us through life, as the glories of heaven are about to open upon us, we shall feel that among the chiefest mercies of God are those dealings of his holy hand, trying at the time, which kept us from going astray, or which recalled us when we had wandered from him - and “that in our life, now closing, there has not been one trial too much.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 119:67. Before I was afflicted I went astray — Many have been humbled under affliction, and taught to know themselves and humble themselves before God, that probably without this could never have been saved; after this, they have been serious and faithful. Affliction sanctified is a great blessing; unsanctified, it is an additional curse.


 
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